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Scientific Consultant and Technical Writer

Ph.D. research scientist with over 20 years experience in industry developing and field deploying scientific instrumentation. Expert in writing, editing scientific articles, reports, proposals and more. Also more than 20 years experience preparing and presenting scientific lectures and posters at major international conferences. I also have over 20 years experience tutoring science and math, mostly at the high school level. I am a native English speaker

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LC-MS/MS Consultant

Heather Gamble Services and Consulting
Aug 2019 - Present
Principle customer is currently Sigma Analytical, where my duties include development and validation of a pesticide method using the QSight triple quadrupole mass spectrometer; QSight hardware, service and general applications support, and training of on-site personnel. Available for technical consulting, field services, and teaching/tutoring opportunities.

Research Scientist

Perkin Elmer Health Sciences
Jul 2007 - Jul 2019 (12 years)
Initially this position was with Ionics Mass Spectrometry Group, Inc. In November of 2015 Ionics was acquired by Perkin Elmer. I planned and executed projects to design, assemble, test, and evaluate LC-MS/MS systems. I prepared and submitted grant proposals, claims, and reports for various grant programs. Duties also included transfer to production, development of final test, installation, and field support protocols, and training of production and field service personnel.

Senior Scientist

Unisearch Associates Inc.
Nov 1998 - Jul 2007 (8 years, 8 months)
I was a laboratory and field research scientist in optical environmental spectroscopy. Responsibilities included applications and design engineering, assembly and testing of laboratory prototype instruments, in-house training of technicians, on site field development and testing for new instruments, internal and external report writing, and preparing and presenting papers/written proceedings at major international scientific conferences.

Education

Ph.D., Chemical Physics

Texas A&M University, United States 1989 - 1993
(4 years)

M.Sc., Chemistry, University of Waterloo

University of Toronto, Canada 1987 - 1989
(2 years)

B.Sc., Honours Chemistry, University of Waterloo

University of Toronto, Canada 1983 - 1987
(4 years)

Publications

Laser induced desorption of small alcohols from Ag(111) by resonant vibrational excitation

Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A Vacuum Surfaces and Films
A fundamental study of the chemical physics of the desorption of small molecules adsorbed on clean, a well defined surface.

Dynamic and static secondary ion mass spectrometry studies of the solvation of HCl by ice

Journal of the Chemical Society Faraday Transactions
A Static ToF-SIMS study of the interactions between ice crystals and HCl in the stratosphere

Static SIMS Studies of Reactions on Mimics of Polar Stratospheric Clouds II

The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
Low-Temperature, Low-Pressure Interactions of Cl2 and Cl2O with Solid Ice Films: A Static ToF-SIMS study of simulated atmospheric chemistry

Static SIMS Studies of Reactions on Mimics of Polar Stratospheric Clouds III

The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
Mechanism of Chlorine Nitrate Decomposition and Reaction. A Static ToF-SIMS study of simulated atmospheric chemistry

Static SIMS studies of catalyst structure and activity

Surface and Interface Analysis
Use of Static ToF-SIMS for studying ageing in automotive exhaust catalysts

Analytical Applications 8: Atmospheric Chemistry

SurfaceSpectra
Chapter in book entitled ToF-SIMS – Surface Analysis by Mass Spectrometry describing applications for ToF-SIMS in atmospheric chemistry

Development of a Compact Raman Spectrometer for Detecting Product Interfaces in a Flow Path

Canadian and US Patent
Patent for a Raman spectroscopy based, field deployable spectrometer for detecting interfaces for gasoline and diesel products flowing through a pipeline

A UV differential optical absorption spectrometer for the measurement of sulfur dioxide emissions

Measurement Science and Technology
Use of a UV-DOAS spectrometer to measure SO2 emissions in car exhaust

Impact of engine lubricant properties on regulated gaseous emissions

Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association
Use of a UV-DOAS spectrometer to measure sulfur containing contaminants in automotive exhaust emissions.

Open-path tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy for acquisition of fugitive emission flux data

; Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association
Use of a field deployable near-IR tunable diode laser spectrometer and remote optics for the detection of fugitive emissions such as NH3 or HF.

Effect of Swirling Desolvation Gas Flow in an Atmospheric Pressure Ion Source

Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry
Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) modelling of gas flow in a heated interface to a triple quadrupole mass spectrometer

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